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<blockquote data-quote="n2audio" data-source="post: 321353" data-attributes="member: 540940">You&#039;re right, but the difference in THD% and S/N ratios is too small to be perceivalbe by our ears.&nbsp; We&#039;re talking about fractions of a percent - trust me - you can&#039;t hear it.Conventional thinking would support that, and marketing departments work night and day to keep that theory alive.&nbsp; But when you finally sort through all the myths you&#039;ll find that it&#039;s just not the case.Obviously crossover set-points and slopes will modify the sound but I believe it&#039;s clearly implied that we&#039;re dealing with the amplification - not the processing.You&#039;re missing the point.&nbsp; If you had a Jensen RATED for 50x2 and a Sinfoni RATED for 50x2 of course you&#039;d never get the same sound out of the Jensen.BUT!&nbsp; It&#039;s not due to &quot;tonal&quot; blah blah or Sinfoni&#039;s &quot;warmth and clarity&quot; from their &quot;higher quality components&quot;.&nbsp; It&#039;s due to the fact that the Sinfoni would actually be putting out 80x2 while the Jensen would be 30x2.It doesn&#039;t become a debate until you take a Jensen 100x2 and a Sinfoni 50x2 that will both do 75 or 80 watts per channel.&nbsp; In that case you CAN get the 2 amps to &quot;sound&quot; exactly alike - it&#039;s been done hundreds of times.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="n2audio, post: 321353, member: 540940"] You're right, but the difference in THD% and S/N ratios is too small to be perceivalbe by our ears. We're talking about fractions of a percent - trust me - you can't hear it. Conventional thinking would support that, and marketing departments work night and day to keep that theory alive. But when you finally sort through all the myths you'll find that it's just not the case. Obviously crossover set-points and slopes will modify the sound but I believe it's clearly implied that we're dealing with the amplification - not the processing. You're missing the point. If you had a Jensen RATED for 50x2 and a Sinfoni RATED for 50x2 of course you'd never get the same sound out of the Jensen. BUT! It's not due to "tonal" blah blah or Sinfoni's "warmth and clarity" from their "higher quality components". It's due to the fact that the Sinfoni would actually be putting out 80x2 while the Jensen would be 30x2. It doesn't become a debate until you take a Jensen 100x2 and a Sinfoni 50x2 that will both do 75 or 80 watts per channel. In that case you CAN get the 2 amps to "sound" exactly alike - it's been done hundreds of times. [/QUOTE]

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